Originally Posted by
megan
Same in Oz in my experience, always grass in skid equipped, must chew up the skids on hard, or constantly replacing some sort of wear pads.
Nope, we have carbide skid shoes. The risk of rollover on grass is too high. We are also doing stuck pedals to the ground, where you may have some minor spin on touchdown---not good on grass. Our Hyd Off maneuvers we bring to a hover, and enter from 100' hover to simulate long lining worse case scenario.